• Literary Criticism

    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    Essayists

    Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

    By Maddie Crum  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Correspondence

    Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

    By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    On J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

    By John Freeman  October 18, 2019
    Literary History

    Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

    By D.J. Taylor  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
    Nationalism

    The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

    By Stephanie Newman  October 17, 2019
    Correspondence

    A Friendship in Letters:
    Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

    By Benjamin B. Alexander  October 16, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

    By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

    By John Freeman  October 10, 2019
    Love

    Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

    By Brad Gooch   October 10, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

    By Billy Kahora  October 9, 2019
    Children's Literature

    Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

    By Philip Pullman  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

    By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

    By Zefyr Lisowski  October 7, 2019
    Philosophy

    The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

    By Lisa Levy  October 4, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

    By Mieko Kawakami  October 3, 2019
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